It was a blanket payment for any counties that had a “disaster” in 2024. Think drought or excessive moisture. It was about 5% if revenue for me personally so yes it does help.

We are probably gonna get fucked with retaliatory tariffs here pretty quickly, just like Trump’s first term when he destroyed our soybean export market with China. We received direct payments from the government for that debacle. I’d much rather have the free market to sell into than the gov teat.

The farmers already have operating loans for this crop year and most inputs like seed, fertilizer and herbicide are prepaid. It won’t be until the next year that they, including me, are fucked. The government even slipped us a free money payment this week. It’s all stupid though. Fuck Trump.